Hawkins Hollow Kids Songs
No Reprise at Weather Vane Deck with the Balance Story Wheel
The part everyone joins: “Listen, measure, move.” The family learns the call backward, then discovers its safe forward order.
Lyrics
Opening — Separate Descent
Four voices start above stump-school yard,
but no one gathers into a line.
Aralynn follows a long soft curve.
Kaydence chooses the shorter careful turn.
Haylee carries the balance story wheel.
Emmitt watches where the damp edge narrows.
They meet at weather-vane deck
with two memories of the same descent.
Reverse-Built Call
Young voices: Move.
Older echo: Measure.
Family: Listen.
All: We built the call from ending to start:
move, measure, listen—three separate parts.
Aralynn remembers the long curve as clear.
Kaydence remembers one narrow turn.
Both routes brought a true piece of the morning.
Neither memory fits every body.
Haylee balances the wheel on its center mark.
Emmitt shifts one loose ring to the lower edge.
A narrow shadow line appears on one side.
A wider shadow line appears on the other.
Shadow Turn
Sunlit cloud ribbons cross the open wheel.
The two shadow lines meet without merging.
For one quiet measure, the shape reads “two ways.”
No singer has to choose one memory as winner.
The shadow becomes the readable message.
The backward call cannot return unchanged.
Forward Rule
Young voices: Listen.
Older echo: Measure.
Family: Move.
All: Listen, measure, move with care.
Keep the near and wide routes there.
At Cobb orchard press, the wheel rests closed.
Aralynn taps the dry press wood once.
Kaydence brushes one dry leaf once.
Haylee holds the loose ring level.
Emmitt waits for the barely moving air.
The air nudges the ring against the wheel: ting.
Wood, leaf, ring, and open air
make one harmony the room cannot hold.
Final Call — No Reprise
Near-memory part: I heard the shorter turn.
Wide-memory part: I heard the longer curve.
All: Outside, both can sound together.
The wheel closes.
The harmony passes.
No indoor reprise follows.
About This Song
Age lane: S5 — Mixed-Age Family Song
Theme: Evening Community — letting two valid memories coexist.
Energy: Patient building with soft celebration, spacious calls, and an outdoor closing texture.
Estimated duration: About 2 minutes 20 seconds.
Participation: Younger singers echo three words; older singers carry near and wide harmony lines; participants may step, tap seated, gesture, listen, or hold silence.
Ways to Join In
- Younger singers echo move, measure, listen, then listen, measure, move.
- Older singers may carry near-memory and wide-memory harmony parts.
- Participants may walk, tap seated, gesture, or hold silence.
- Leave the final ring sound to the outdoor air; do not imitate it indoors.